PART 3CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

Grant of warrants

56Grant of warrants for execution by constables and police members of SCDEA

1

A sheriff or justice of the peace does not lack power or jurisdiction to grant a warrant for execution by a person mentioned in subsection (2) solely because the person is not a constable of a police force for a police area lying wholly or partly in the sheriff's or justice's sheriffdom.

2

The persons referred to in subsection (1) are—

a

a constable,

b

police member of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency.